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5 Stocks That Could React To Recent Civil Unrest, Police Shootings
Wednesday, September 21, 2016 - 1:49pm | 545A police shooting in Charlotte, North Carolina, has led to civil unrest Wednesday, with police claiming 12 officers have been injured in the aftermath of the inciting incident. However, the extent and severity of the officers' injuries have yet to be detailed. It all started when police wanted to...
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Taser Leading Law Enforcement Stocks Lower
Wednesday, August 31, 2016 - 1:10pm | 388Law enforcement related stocks have run up this summer following a string of social unrest, police shootings and investors speculating that police departments across the world will continue adopting body worn cameras, which would benefit companies such as TASER International, Inc. (NASDAQ: TASR...
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Digital Ally And 3 Law Enforcement Stocks You May Have Never Heard Of Are Surging
Friday, July 8, 2016 - 11:43am | 289Shares of Digital Ally, Inc. (NASDAQ: DGLY), a producer of digital video image and storage products for use in law enforcement, surged higher by more than 50 percent to $6.27 on Friday following the deadly shooting in Dallas in which five police offers were murdered by a sniper. Investors and...
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Taser Lower Despite New Partnership Announcment
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 3:03pm | 205Shares of TASER International, Inc. (NASDAQ: TASR) were trading lower by more than 5 percent Tuesday afternoon despite the company's announcement of a new partnership. Taser said it reached an exclusive partnership with Italy-based Amped Software, a provider of forensic video enhancement...
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TASER Acquires MediaSolv Solutions For $13 Million
Tuesday, May 5, 2015 - 9:29am | 292TASER International, Inc. (NASDAQ: TASR) on Tuesday announced in a press release it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire MediaSolv Solutions Corp., a leading solution for interview room video, CCTV, in-car and on premises digital evidence management. The company stated the acquisition...
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Police Officers Looking To Buy Their Own Body Cameras
Friday, April 24, 2015 - 11:26am | 598Should police and law enforcement officers be forced to wear a body camera? The topic was brought into the national spotlight following the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri by Darren Wilson, a police officer. A recent series of other widely publicized police shootings ensured the...
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Oppenheimer Says Taser Is 'Only At The Top Of The First Inning'
Friday, April 10, 2015 - 9:42am | 235In a report published Friday, Oppenheimer analyst Andrew Uerkwitz detailed a recent meeting with TASER International, Inc. (NASDAQ: TASR)'s senior management team, including the company's CEO and Co-founder Rick Smith. "While we didn't learn anything new, we walked away with more confidence in the...
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Digital Ally Files For Breath Analyzer Patent, Shares Move Higher
Thursday, February 19, 2015 - 12:56pm | 207Shares of Digital Ally, Inc. (NASDAQ: DGLY) were trading higher Thursday by more than 2 percent after the company filed for a patent related to a "breath analyzer, system, and computer program for authenticating, preserving, and presenting breath analysis data." According to the...
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4 Technologies Combating Auto Theft
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - 9:45am | 627A recent article in The New York Times had an amazing bit of information: There's been a 96 percent drop in New York City's rate of car theft since 1990. Auto theft is still a major problem in the U.S, but it's one of the fastest-declining crime categories. The FBI reports that, in...
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How U.S. Law Enforcement Snaps Up Military Gear
Monday, August 18, 2014 - 11:53am | 747The anger and unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, unleashed by the shooting death of an unarmed African-American teenager by a local police officer, has yet to abate. That unrest has drawn attention to local law enforcement's acquisition of military hardware, because of what is being seen as a...